INCEPTION REPORT: DEVELOPMENT APPRAISAL AND AUDIT d. Housing Table 3.9: Policies stated in KLSP 2020 regarding Housing
POLICIES
DESCRIPTION
HO 1 CHKL shall encourage responsible parties in the housing sector to develop good quality housing and living environments.
Good quality housing is a combination of many aspects of housing development. Design and layout, environmental responsiveness, the quality of workmanship and materials, the provision of utilities and facilities, landscaping, maintenance and upgrading, all play a part in the total housing environment. CHKL shall encourage and work with the private sector to raise overall standards of housing in all of these areas so as to produce housing of the highest quality.
HO 2 CHKL shall encourage the private sector to develop a wider choice of innovative housing.
The private sector shall be encouraged to investigate new forms of housing which can offer a wider choice of lifestyle. Entirely new concepts or hybrids could be developed that combine the attractions of different existing housing types.
HO 3 CHKL shall, together with responsible parties in the housing sector, develop and implement measures to upgrade the quality of existing old housing stock.
Building owners and management corporations shall be educated in the benefits of regular maintenance and upgrading schedules. In the older housing areas which have fallen into disrepair, measures need to be initiated to upgrade them to acceptable standards.
HO 4 CHKL shall implement measures to ensure that all private flatted housing estates are properly maintained according to the minimum required standards.
Where necessary, CHKL shall implement additional measures to improve the condition and external appearance of private flatted housing estates that do not meet minimum required standards.
HO 12 CHKL shall ensure that there is sufficient affordable housing available to meet the needs of the population.
The decision as to whether to live inside or outside the City boundary should be one of choice rather than necessity resulting from a shortage of appropriate housing. It remains, therefore, CHKL’s basic responsibility to ensure that there is an adequate mix of housing that meets the needs of its population and is commensurate with the City’s population income distribution.
HO 13 CHKL shall encourage the building of lowmedium and medium cost houses. HO 14 CHKL shall give priority to the tenants of public housing to purchase low medium cost houses.
CHKL shall take appropriate measures so that more low-medium and medium cost housing units are provided. Based on the 2002 current housing cost, the low-medium cost housing is defined as houses costing not more than RM85,000 per unit while the medium cost houses is not more than RM150,000 per unit. Both categories of houses are expected to achieve 30 percent of the total future housing needs. The private sector is encouraged to build low-medium and medium cost houses by providing incentives such as allowing high-density development in areas close to transit terminals.
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